Symphonie Concertante, Sept Chançons, Kamersymfonie (1999)

"George Enescu (1881-1955) is still considered the greatest of all Romanian composers. He was a very imaginative, highly skilled composer of music possessing great depth and subtlety, as well as being one of the great concert violinists of his time. Scored for flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano, the Chamber Symphony is Enescu's last work and was, in fact, incomplete when he suffered a severe stroke in July 1954. The finishing touches were therefore put to the score by his close friend Marcel Mihalovici. Despite this last minute external influence, the Chamber Symphony is one of the most deeply personal and introspective of Enescu's works. Instead of using the interplay of solo instruments in ensemble to portray a pastoral, natural world, as he did in the 1906 Dixtuor, the composer uses the characteristics of the instruments to depict a darker, more intimate view of the tragedy of the human condition." (allmusic)